Midterm

Question 1

Ruling Class and ruling ideas

Answer 1

Marx and Engels

Question 2

Marx

Answer 2

Base and superstructure, “social being determines consciousness”

Question 3

Gramsci

Answer 3

-Hegemony, intellects and the state -ruling class exercises direct domination through laws, negative enforcement, coercion, use of force -Makes force seem like it was public consent -Hegemony, intellectuals -state = political society + civil society

Question 4

Lull

Answer 4

-Hegemony -“methods for gaining & maintaing power” -“hegemony fails when dominant ideology is weaker than social resistance”

Question 5

Hall

Answer 5

-Encoding and decoding -Media producer powers and viewer interpretation

Question 6

Bobo

Answer 6

life experiance effect how we view things -the color purple -black women portrayed in a negative manner

Question 7

Roy and Steger

Answer 7

-whats neo about neoliberalism -Obama, Keynesian, libertarianism, where it originated, reagan

Question 8

Harvey

Answer 8

-Neoliberalism as creative destruction -accumulate by dispossesion, privatization “benifits self not public”, freedom used as cover chile, -restore class power, class domination, state redistribution “For any system of thought….beyond question”- Harvey

Question 9

Klein

Answer 9

-Shock doctorine -Milton Friedman, privatization of public schools, hurricane katrina, disaster apartheid, cuts to social spending, shock therapy, corporatist state

Question 10

McRobbie

Answer 10

-Post feminism and pop culture -Backlash -“undoing feminism” -“she” “we” - undoing of feminism, acceptance of pinup girls and porn -female individualization -bridget jones

Question 11

Tasker and Negra

Answer 11

Feminist politics and postfeminist culture -postfem heroine is young and playful, opposite is the professional who is repressive and deceptive -top girls, new sexual contract, working girl, phallic girl,

Question 12

Mundy

Answer 12

-The richer sex -Women breadwinners, men stay at home more

Question 13

Rosin

Answer 13

-Boys on the side -hookup culture: hookup casually, avoid serious relationship till 30’s for careers

Question 14

Coontz

Answer 14

-Myth of male decline -men control important industries -women have low wages still - white women in 20s compared to immigrant man

Question 15

Slaughter

Answer 15

Why women still can’t have it all -High end jobs make it impossible to be a good mom and career women. -schools need to change times -workplaces need to work on making it easier on moms so they can spend time with kids

Question 16

Zieger

Answer 16

-Sex and the city -DIY citizen, consumerism

Question 17

Dominant political rationality

Answer 17

Framework of how we see and talk about politics and political framework. It sets that terms in which we understand our current social and political arrangements. It is dominant in the sense that it supplies the same work for everyone regardless of what their political standing. It is political in the sense that we have a set framework of how we view politics. An example of DPR is neoliberalism and post feminism.

Question 18

Neoliberalism

Answer 18

Theory of how political sphere should be shaped to maximize economic freedom (individual and corporate). It emphasizes traits like individual responsibility and consumerism. Government should be based off of business, free enterprise.

Question 19

New sexual contract

Answer 19

a post feminist settlement, a new deal for young woman, which call upon them to become economically self sufficient, but they must; embody norm of feminity and heterosexuality, abandon critique of gender norms, and hetronormitvity, participate in consumer culture, participate in marriage

Question 20

Working girl

Answer 20

endowed with capacity to learn, earn, to consume “can do” girl. Celebrated as a successful political reform. Depicted favorably across popular media. She’s celebrated b/c she can consume and is not state dependent.

Question 21

Phallic girl

Answer 21

Sexually liberated, shown often in pop culture, women are encouraged to be sexually adventurous as long as they; retain femininity, don’t get pregnant before marriage b/c that means they need welfare, marriage is still end goal.

Question 22

Fashion-beauty complex

Answer 22

Domain of commercial fashion and beauty media, women oriented content and ads. Women encouraged to perform feminity and heterosexual desires. Example of FBC is makeup, fitted clothes, speaking softly

Question 23

Post-industrial economy

Answer 23

Shrinking of manufacturing sector, growing technologic sector. Now that we are in the technological world, the amount of well- paying blue collar jobs are very low. Men are not able to keep up with the technology and are therefore falling behind.

Question 24

Hookup culture

Answer 24

women have casual flings without getting into any serious relationships that will divert them from education and pursing a career. Women visit this “island” during the 20s, but still dream of a heterosexual marriage

Question 25

Base and superstructure, “social being determines consciousness”

Answer 25

Marx

Question 26

-Hegemony, intellects and the state -ruling class exercises direct domination through laws, negative enforcement, coercion, use of force -Makes force seem like it was public consent -Hegemony, intellectuals -state = political society + civil society

Answer 26

Gramsci

Question 27

-Hegemony -“methods for gaining & maintaing power” -“hegemony fails when dominant ideology is weaker than social resistance”

Answer 27

Lull

Question 28

-Encoding and decoding -Media producer powers and viewer interpretation

Answer 28

Hall

Question 29

life experiance effect how we view things -the color purple -black women portrayed in a negative manner

Answer 29

Bobo

Question 30

-whats neo about neoliberalism -Obama, Keynesian, libertarianism, where it originated, reagan

Answer 30

Roy and Steger

Question 31

-Neoliberalism as creative destruction -accumulate by dispossesion, privatization “benifits self not public”, freedom used as cover chile, -restore class power, class domination, state redistribution “For any system of thought….beyond question”- Harvey

Answer 31

Harvey

Question 32

-Shock doctorine -Milton Friedman, privatization of public schools, hurricane katrina, disaster apartheid, cuts to social spending, shock therapy, corporatist state

Answer 32

Klein

Question 33

-Post feminism and pop culture -Backlash -“undoing feminism” -“she” “we” - undoing of feminism, acceptance of pinup girls and porn -female individualization -bridget jones

Answer 33

McRobbie

Question 34

Feminist politics and postfeminist culture -postfem heroine is young and playful, opposite is the professional who is repressive and deceptive -top girls, new sexual contract, working girl, phallic girl,

Answer 34

Tasker and Negra

Question 35

-The richer sex -Women breadwinners, men stay at home more

Answer 35

Mundy

Question 36

-Boys on the side -hookup culture: hookup casually, avoid serious relationship till 30’s for careers

Answer 36

Rosin

Question 37

-Myth of male decline -men control important industries -women have low wages still - white women in 20s compared to immigrant man

Answer 37

Coontz

Question 38

Why women still can’t have it all -High end jobs make it impossible to be a good mom and career women. -schools need to change times -workplaces need to work on making it easier on moms so they can spend time with kids

Answer 38

Slaughter

Question 39

-Sex and the city -DIY citizen, consumerism

Answer 39

Zieger